November 15, 2013

Pakistani Ibrahim Mohammed, 42, who was displaced with his family from Pakistan's tribal region of Mohmand Agency due to fighting between the Taliban and the army, wraps himself and his son Mashal, 1, with a shawl to avoid the evening cold, while sitting in front of his home in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad.

A rainbow appears above Typhoon Haiyan survivors desperate to catch a flight from the Tacloban airport. The death toll from Typhoon Haiyan in the devastated Philippine coastal city of Tacloban was 4,000, a notice board at City Hall said on Friday, nearly double the nationwide toll provided by the government in Manila.

A sub-Antarctic Gentoo penguin chick sits on a weigh scale at SEA LIFE Melbourne Aquarium in Melbourne, Australia. With several Gentoo penguin pairs still sitting on eggs, keepers are hopeful of the arrival of several more chicks before Christmas.

Sri Lankan men in traditional costume hold national flags of the Commonwealth countries as they sit atop elephants outside the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall (BMICH) during the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Colombo.

An employee of Starbucks holds a cup of coffee at a new Starbucks store on a train of Swiss rail operator SBB in Zurich. The world's largest coffee chain Starbucks presented its first double-deck store on a SBB Intercity train travelling between the Swiss cities of St. Gallen and Geneva, Nov. 14, 2013.

A fishermen loads crab pots onto a fishing vessel at Fishermen's Wharf ahead of Friday's opening of the commercial Dungeness crab season, in San Francisco, California, Fishermen heading out to sea will face a new state law, which limits the number of crab pots each boat is permitted to carry, Nov. 14, 2013.

A Commuter cycles in central London. The deaths of five cyclists in just nine days on the roads this month in London have prompted calls for the city's mayor Boris Johnson to speed up road safety measures in the capital. The fatalities have been caused through collisions with buses, trucks and a coach.

A Bahraini protester throws back a tear gas canister during clashes with riot police following an anti-regime demo heading to 'Pearl Square' after a religious procession marking Ashura in the village of Daih, Bahrain.